[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My apologies, given that Google Groups messes up the formatting, the
> regexp should read
>
> regexp = re.compile("""<li class=\"post\".*?<h4 class=\"desc\"><a
> href=
> \"(.*?)\" rel=\"nofollow\">(.*?)</a>.*?</div>\s*(?:<p class=\"notes
> \">(.*?)</p>)?.*?<div class=\"meta\">(?:to ((?:<a class=\"tag\".*?> )
> +))*.*?<span class=\"date\" title=\"(.*?)\">.*?</span>\s*</div>.*?</
> li>""", re.DOTALL)
Some regular expressions can't be searched in a reasonable length of
time. Not sure whether this is your problem but it might be! Search
for "exponential time regular expression" if you want some examples.
Eg http://bugs.python.org/issue1515829
I'd attack this problem using beatifulsoup probably rather than
regexps!
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